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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

at each closet-with ordinary soup and
boulli cans filled with raw linseed oil,
the bottoms of the cans having been
punched with two or three small holes.
The oil was allowed to trickle into the
bowl and thence into the sea, with
what seemed to the captain wonder
full effect The oil-slick extended well
out on either quarter, and so far astern
that not single sea broke on board
after the use of the oil was begun"
The captain described the manner in
which the great white-crested seas
would come roaring after the ship, as
if they would sweep her decks fore and
aft; and how, on meeting the oil-slick,
the crest of the sea would apparently
be shattered into fine spray and moth
ing left of the tremendous breaker but
an enormous swell, over which the ves-
sci rode easily and without taking
drop of water. The captain gave his
personal attention to the expenditure
of oil, regulating its flow by stopping
one or more of the holes in the can
when more than was necessary ran out,
and in this way he succeeded in max
ing seven gallons of oil last twenty
four hours. All this time his decks
were almost absolutely dry, the only
water coming on board being the fine
spray from the crest of each wave as it
came into contact with the oil-slick
and was blown on board by the wind.
Captain Wales adds that he makes
point of using oil when even not abso-
lutely necessary, as it adds so much to
the comfort of all on board and eases
the ship. 1t would seem to be the part
of discretion, now that the question of
the use of oil in such cases is finally
settled, that all ships be regularly
equipped with appliances for casting
oil on the water, just as they are COM
PEELED to carry lights and compasses.
I" Sea breakers Appliances for the
distribution of the oil-have been
patented both at home and abroad, and
are now used by all collaborating
steamers and some other vessels.
Special oil is now manufactured for this
purpose. -1he Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
A Strange Story.

The following letter was published
in the Windsor Journal last week. We
have no recollection of ever having
heard of the loss of such men, but it
may have occurred all the same: "Ba-
kersville, n. c., October 26, 1857
Some time since, while coming through
Rutherford county, had occasion to
borrow an Overcoat, which proved to be
United States soldiers coat. Inside
was the name of one of the Seventh
Vermont Volunteers. On returning it
| made some inquiry and learned that
eleven soldiers were going through to
Asheville after the war was over. and
while camping were foully murdered by
those in the neighborhood. | think all
the names can be secured by a small
outlay, say the expense of a trip sixty
miles and back. Some of their friends
may be entitled to pension. l was
formerly from Windsor and lost a son
in Andersonville prison, and am aware
of the anxiety of those that lost friends
and relatives in the South.
S. WORTHEN."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
EmersOn's Literary Habits.

Emerson was now settled in the hab-
its of life to which he ever afterward
adhered. The morning was his time of
work, and he took care to guard it from
all disturbance. He rose early and went
to his study, where he remained until
dinner-time Zone o'clock and in the
afternoon went to walk. In the even
ing he was with his family sometimes
reading aloud, or went to his study
again, but never worked late, thinking
sleep to be prime necessity for health
of body and of mind. He was sound
sleeper, and never got up at night, as
some one has fancied, to iot down
thoughts which then occurred to him.
The wide range of Emerson's quota
tions, and the unhesitating way in which
he sometimes speaks upon subjects of
learned investigation, have given i'm
pressions not altogether correct concern
ing the character of his reading. He
had quick eye for good sentence,
and never forgot one; but the quota
tons, | think, are sometimes all that he
cared to know of the book; and he
would have been partly amused, partly
veXed, to hear himself described as a
profound student-of the new Platoon
lists or of anything to be learned from
books. He was profound student
of impressions, sentiments, expert
ences, and was ready to receive them
from any source. But of the olsen
gagged curiosity, the readiness to enter
into and pursue the ideas of others,
that make the student, the man of let
tiers Cor, again, the traveller, the man of
the world), he had very little. He did
not even pursue his own. He was ever
on the watch for them, trying to render
them without loss into words; but of
their further relations to each other or
to the ideas of other people he was
rather incurious.-CabotS Memoir of
Emerson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
DISTRICT AGENCY
OF THE
Conn. Mutual Life Insurance Co.
FOR THE
Montpelier District, Vt.

MONTPELIER, July |, 1887.
Having been appointed to I'LL the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of Mr. d. ID. wilkins gem
eral agent Tor the above company for Vermont, to
take effect July LIST proximo all collections of pre-.
mums and renewals in this district-vlz, Washing
ton Orange, Caledonia, Essex Orleans and Lamoilie
counties-wi be made by me and after that date.
The onlce OF the district agent will be In Montpelier
VI, to which place all remittances and communica-
tions should be sent A cordial cooperation of the
policy holders for the increase of business for the
company throughout the district is earnestly so
cited. All parties DESTROYS of obtaining tclass
insurance cordially invited to communicate with
this ofice. Very respectfully,
j. X. SEANER, District Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Questions Answered.

G. w. c., NEwPoRT.-General Stone
wall Jackson was accidentally killed by
his own men.
a. H., WORCEsTER.-It has been de-
cided by the secretary of the interior
that an infantry soldier is not in the
line of duty when wounded by the acct
dental discharge of his own pistol, as
the pistol is not part of the arms of
an infantryman.
n. G., BETHEL.-The pension GER
tifieate when issued does not take the
number of the pension claim. A Mr..
Brown, who made his application for
pension last April, had his claim num-
bered COZ 033. The pension certificate,
issued in October, was numbered
375,417. An application for increase
of pension always bears the number of
the pension certificate.
ID. b. P, CRAFTsBURY.-A special
examiner of the pension Office has been
assigned to take the place that was
held by James E. Curran when your
claim was ordered to be investigated.
large amount of business has accumu-
lated during the summer and fall. and
you are liable to be compelled to wait
some time yet before you get your case
considered. The new examiner comes
from New Hampshire.
G. L., WINDsoR.-If you desire to
become an inmate of the Soldiers
Home you ought to make out an appli-
cation and forward it to Bennington.
The superintendent, Captain r. J.
Coffey. will send you blank form of
application. Such institutions are al
ways full during the winter season.
The National Soldiers Home in Maine.
which accommodates about 1000 dis
abled veterans, is full and can receive
no more soldiers this winter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
On Small Means.

Gail Hamilton is not always in the
right, but when she speaks she always
has something to say, and it is often
nightly to the point. In recent let
ter of hers to the Buffalo Express she
talks in very interesting way about
some working-men she had just heard
about who had struck work because
they only got seventeen cents an hour
for unskilled labor. She does not at
tack the labor question:: she does not
promulgate any theories, but she does
tell what she knows about people who
work for less than seventeen cents an
hour, and her remarks furnish food for
thought. She tells how the clergymen
of her village, after a costly half dozen
or so years in college, live, and live in
refinement and comfort, on $500, 5000
and 500 year. She tells of kinspeo-
pie of hers who have lived on $500 a
year, surrounded by an atmosphere of
modest elegance, and have sent sons to
college and daughters to boarding.
school, and furnished them with appli-
ances of education at home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
HALLS CATARRH CURE.

There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be constitu-
tional disease, and therefore it requires
constitutional treatment. HALLS Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney IL Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure now on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from ten drops to tea-spoonful. 1t
acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circular and testi-
monials. Address
F. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Co Sold by druggists; seventy-five
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Mistellanp.
The Dear Old Songs of Home.

Some simple word my heart has stirred,
And thought in fancy strays,
with halfheard rhyme and rythmic chime,
To boyhoods happy days,
Like far-on bells, faint ringing,
The memories old are clingng;
Now family, now clear, again hear
My mother sweetly singing
Singing,
Sweetly singing,
The dear old songs of home.
An happy boy with unmixed Joy;
How sweet the days of old
When meath our gaze the freights blaze
Shot up its spears of gold
see the kettle swinging,
The shadows round 1t clinging;
TIL once again, in sweet refrain,
hear my mother singing
Singing,
Sweetly singing,
The dear old songs of home.
No lapse of time can still the chime
OF these far-hidden bells;
But in my ears, through all these years,
The old-time music dwells,
And now mid bells clear ringing,
With holy thoughts up.springing;
Now faint, now clear again hear
My mother sweetly singing
Singing,
Sweetly singing
The dear old songs of home.
Washington crit,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Pensions Granted.

To Elbridge b. Wilbur, Waterville,
an additional pension from SO to SO a
month and about 500 arrears; John
5. Andrews, Moretown, an increase
from 81 to S4 a month and $50 arrears:
Amory Allen, Barre, an increase from
"a to So month; John B. Ellis, Hunt
ington, an increase from So to S16 a
month; John A. Kelton, Worcester,
an increase from Sc to $40 month
Leroy Goodell, Worcester, an increase
from 81 to IS month; Robert b. Lii
lie, Worcester, an increase from S4 to
IS a month; Joseph Simons, Barnet,
an increase from IS to $40 month;
Joel O. Bailey, Holland, an increase
from S12 to SIG a month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

DON'T hawk, spit, cough, suffer dir
illness, Indigestion, Inflammation of the
eyes, headache, lassitude, inability to
perform mental work and indisposition
for bodily labor, and annoy and disgust
your friends and acquaintance with
your nasal twang and offensive breath
and constant efforts to clean your
nose and throat when DIR. Sage's
" Catarrh Remedy" will promptly re-
lieve you of discomfort and suffering
and your friends of the disgusting and
needless infections of your loathsome
disease?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

ALL our readers should bear in mind
constantly that there is one certain
cure for aches and pains of all kinds,
internal and external. Neurotic Oil is
a good family medicine to keep on
hand. Only twenty-five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Soldiers Budget.
Granny's Comforter.

" Where is your father now, my child?
God only knows.
Twas day like this and Just as wild
How the wind bowsl
He sailed away across the bay,
SO brave and true,
And never a word has since been heard
OF ship or crew
" And now my other boy, they say
Has gone from me,
Dying thousand leagues away
Across the sea-
Alasl OF both my sons bereft
Yet God knows best!
And. little one, you still are left,
SO am blest!"
The child beside her granny stands
Sight fair to see
And strokes the dear old time worn hands
In sympathy;
And lol while yet they're sorrowing there,
And each heart burns,
step is heard upon the stair
The lost returns The Onirer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

AN itinerant preacher, who rambled
in his sermons, when requested to stick
to his text, replied that scattering
shot would hit the most birds"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
PICTURES FOR THE POOR.
All Artist Who Turns Out Half Mic
of Paintings Day.
From the New York Evening Sun.

From the Netc York Evening Sun
A large crowd gathered in front OIL an
uptown store. The attraction was high aro'
A young man with a soft, slouched ma,
tipped over his left eye sat before an ea eSi
at work on a picture. He was putting u"
finishing touches to weird landscape con
tanning boy, cow, several sheep anu
barn. About twenty other completed pic
lures stood around him, some with frai ne
and some without. Every movement Oh !no ,
brush was eagerly watched by an adInlrIns
throng, whose neclSs were craned 10 Eey
good view of the artist as he turned oue hio
masterpieces at the rate Of half mic
day. -..,-,;++ls
The proprietor of the studio, brisk Ho ,L
man with bald head and habit Oh luD C
bling his hands together and bowing 70 on9
toners, informed seekers after knoWieub0
that one of those elegant oil painuihgIL Ia
''pure oil and no fraud about it'-couiu ~
had for the modest sum of s., The lranN
itself he said was worth Zoe foot. ,,,.
When the store closed Journalist acq anor
panied the artist TO his home on the GoP I'm 10,
of a dwelling not far from Waslli4ts NE NE
square. The artist acknowledged InaS lie
occupation did not meet the ldeals y, ,,a ~,
youthful ambitions. In early days ne ". a.
dered through art galleries filed with lne
hope OF some day seeing his own plctu.iIes
hanging on the walls, aud he built an ~ i've
of his future fame and afiiuence: Puv and
had long ago given mp those idle I'o
was becoming resigned 20 the tate llla '.s.5oiy
him un humble worker in a store ,..e,.er.
He had not labored quite in VAN, hoWe' "a
for his productions decorated the honies
the moor. who were quite as well satlsileu o.
they would be with higher works Oh o.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
Another War Article.

From the No1TistotCR Herald.
81 have here" said a seedy-looking indi-
vidual, placing his hat on the editors table
in the Office of the Daily annual and draw
forth Formidable roll of manuscript, "a
true account of the battle of Shiloh"
Battle of whichlo" interrupted the edi-
tor, with a puzzled expression.
1.-The battle of SHILOH said the visitor,
written by an eyewitness"
did the battle take place in this coun-
tryr asked the editor, with an air of in
terest
"In this countrygn echoed the veteran
"Stars and planets, man! Did you never
hear of the war for the Unionm
mot a word. In which State was it
fought"
Slater howled the visitor. estate?
Why it was fought in more than a dozen
Statesn
''Was it precipitated by the Chicago
Anarchists" queried the editor, flirting
over the pages Of the manuscript.
''Anarch-- great universe, no! II was a
fratricidal struggle between the North and
South, and your humble servant fought all
through it. | was at the battle of Shiloh,
and also. By the way, dye see this flat
tened bullet in this charm attached TO my
watch chain. Well, that was shot into my
body at the battle of Shiloh. 1t pierced my
breast and lodged against my spinal
column, whence III was removed only a year
ago by decidedly delicates and dangerous
surgical operation. All old soldiers carry
around bullet rs a momento of wounds re-
ceived in the hloodiest war of modern
times but | rather think
Say suddenly broke in the editor, "as
the battle of Shiloh has never been written
up Republication, I'll buy your manuscript.
| am willing to pay literally to get scoop
on my rivals in the matter of fresh news. y
Aud the editor showed the manuscript into
a pigeon hole, handed the historian a check
for $75 and resumed work on an editorial
entitled The Iniquitious Interstate Com
merce Bill"
The old soldier pocketed the check, gave
the editor military salute and marched out
of the Office with the slow and measured
step OF a funeral procession.
An hour later he returned with the infor-
nation that the bank on which the check
was drawn refused TO cash the paper as the
editor had no funds there: but the editor
was conveniently out, and the clerk said he
had just started for Florida for the benefit
of his health and would not return for three
months.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
GENTLENESS.
How the Man Who Looked for His
Penny Was Carried Past His Street.

How the Man VINO Looked Tor Ills
Penny Was Carried Past His Street.
From It'd Bits.
"You dropped a copper in the straw"
said horse car conductor to pompous-
looking old gentleman the other day.
Dropped whatg" asked the bereft pas.
senger.
"a copper. Isaw it fall"
"Oh, WELL" was the Indifferent reply, Il
guess a copper will neither make nor break
me, still"
He began poking around in the straw with
his cane.
ut glanced off to the left" said the con-
ducter, STOPPING over and stirring the straw
with his hand.
"Oh, it's of no consequence at all" said
the loser, "a copper is nothing; however,
one might as wen -" he dropped down on
one knee and stirred the straw carefully.
He turned and crawled back toward his
seat, blowing up the straw with both hands.
"Oh, WELL" he said, as he peered as far as he
could under the skirts of a lady who had sat
next him, "a copper is but a trifie after all;
still would you mind moving over a little,
madam 1t might have fallen here, you
know; sorry to trouble for such trlfie, but
then -n
He made the straw fly for about five min
utes, then he rose slowly and sadly to his
feet, stirred around with his cane and finally
sat down, saying:
ut is of no consequence, not the least
Let it go. A copper is-ah there it is"
He bounded half the length of the car ana
grabbed up a handful of straw in which
there was-a brass tobacco tag.
The joyous light died out of his eyes. he
sank back in his seat dejectedly; but he tried
to grin and again said:
ic Of mo- fhn
"Fifty-ninth street, cried the conductor
''Great Scottw shouted the copperleS
man, 81 ought to have got off a mile back
here Here LEFT me- off -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
DEAD ROSES.

Only handful of scented dust!
They were roses once, they were sweet ant
fair;
You must take their lovelineSs now on trust.
wore them against my hair,
Roses your hands proudly bore
Through the crowded dancers, one Summer
night:
You blushed as you bent with your pretty gift
Have you forgotten, quite:
Poor little flowers It were easy now
To crush and scatter them down the wind;
But think, wherever their dust may go
Their sweetness would stay behind!
And SO keep them, untouched, unchanged,
To smile and sigh at-you wonder why?
Well, that is a woman's way, you know
They are good to remember by.
like to remember how fair they We're
On that summer night when we sat apart
And your breath seemed caught in the eager
throbS
OF your passionate strong young heart.
What did You say to me? Words more true
Than ever again your lips can say,
For love and roses and life are new;
They are withered and dead to-day!
-MADALINE S. BRIDGES.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
WHY THEY TASTED.
Reasons Which Induced a Hundred
Frenchmen to Abstain From Meat.
From the PaH Mall Gazette.


From the Pan Mall Gazette.
A reporter of the Paris has taken the
trouble to question number-a hundred,
he says--of Parisians of the male sex who
abstained from meat on Good Friday as to
the motive of this deviation from their
usual practice. Several of them replied
that they did so in Difference to old custom
and because they saw most people around
them doing so. Nota few declared they alb
stained from choice, rs they really enjoyed
fish dinner once in way. -Four ate fish to
please their wives, four because their moth
ers asked them TO do so, and one because
he knew it would make a good impression
ON the mother Of young lady whom he
hoped TO marry. Three answered that they
left their dinner menu entirely to the cook,
and that she had sent up nothing but fish.
Two of the number were strict vegetarians.
A young clubman owned that he tasted
simply because it was 'chic.n In only two
cases was there any acknowledgement of
religious motive One man answered, "be-
cause am n Catholic and another, while
admitting that lie never put foot inside a
church by any chance, stated that he was
haunted by a remnant Of belief" which
indisposed him to n meat dinner on Good
Friday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
What is the Social Status of a Bull
Fighter2
From the 81. James Gazette

Can bull fighter claim to be considered
a gentleman! This important question has
been warmly discussed in Madrid society
during the past fortnight, a challenge sent
by Mazzantini, the famous torero, TO jour
nalist VINO had, as he conceived. written in
sultingly about him, having brought it on
the taps. The challenge took Madrid bv
SURPRISE no member of Mazzantini's profess
sion having ever been known to claim rep
aration for an aifront at the swords point
before. Nevertheless, he had no difficulty
in obtaining the services of two members Of
the Neloz Club to convey his demand for
satisfaction 20 the offending journalist, who,
however refused 10 entertain it, sheltering
himself under an ancient statute which ex-
pressly forbids the subjects of his Catholic
Majesty TO cross swords with factors or bull
slayersn
Mazzantini and his friends declined to ac-
cept this answer, the newspapers took the
matter up, and n hot controversy ensued.
The question has not been settled one way
or the other, though the difference that
raised 1t has been amicably adjusted.